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BT cuts 0870 charges

'Rip-off' numbers go free

BT has today cut the cost of calling 0845 and 0870 to zero for many of its customers, following a consumer campaign against companies profiting from premium rate lines.…

Dnes, 14:07 - The Register

Interest rates hit all-time low

The Bank of England cuts rates to 1.5%, the lowest level in its 315-year history, as it continues efforts to help the economy.

Dnes, 14:07 - BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition

Avian Flu Becoming More Resistant To Antiviral Drugs, Says University Of Colorado Study

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows the resistance of the avian flu virus to a major class of antiviral drugs is increasing through positive evolutionary selection, with researchers documenting the trend in more than 30 percent of the samples tested.

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New Test Will Catch Sports Cheats On New Endurance Drugs

Avoiding detection just got harder for drug cheats who try to use a particular range of untested, but potentially enhancing, compounds. In the past, tests have been developed once a drug is known to be in circulation. Now a German research team has developed tests for a class of drugs that they believe could be used in the near future.

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Mountaineers Measure Lowest Human Blood Oxygen Levels On Record

The lowest ever levels of oxygen in humans have been reported in climbers on an expedition led by UCL (University College London) doctors.

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HHS Issues Action Plan To Prevent Health Care-Associated Infections

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) unveiled a plan that establishes a set of five-year national prevention targets to reduce and possibly eliminate health care-associated infections (HAIs). Health care-associated infections are infections that patients acquire while undergoing medical treatment or surgical procedures. These infections are largely preventable.

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Health Care Delivery Could Be Adversely Affected By Cost Containment Focus

The drive toward containing health care costs could have the unintended consequence of reducing physician productivity, impairing quality and perhaps even increasing costs, two Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center physicians suggest in a New England Journal of Medicine "Perspective.

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QuantRx(R) Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance For Its RapidSense(R) Methamphetamine Test

QuantRx Biomedical Corporation (OTCBB: QTXB), a broad-based diagnostic company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative diagnostic products, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the Company 510(k) clearance on its RapidSense drugs-of-abuse (DOA) Methamphetamine test.

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HWI Scientist First In World To Unravel Structure Of Key Breast Cancer Target Enzyme

The molecular details of Aromatase, the key enzyme required for the body to make estrogen, are no longer a mystery thanks to the structural biology work done by the Ghosh lab at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI) in Buffalo, New York. Dr.

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KineMed Awarded Michael J. Fox Foundation Funding To Validate Translational Biomarker Of Microtubule Function In Parkinson's Disease

KineMed, Inc., a pathway-based drug discovery and development company, has been awarded a grant of up to $694,441 (if all milestones are met) to conduct clinical studies toward a new biomarker-based treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD).

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